itinerant_gs

How do you feel about the gaming industry as a whole at this point, particularly in regards to indie games' rise and success?

I suppose I am coming from the perspective that most typical "gamers" like myself (been at it for 25 years now) probably didn't play an indie game with any sort of regularity until recently. Now games like The Binding of Isaac and Shovel Knight are part of my regular rotation. So success, as I put it before, was in regards to indie games now having the means to become widely available and have the potential for traditional success and acclaim. A typical console gamer like myself would not have given the time of day to say Braid or Risk of Rain in the nineties. To me that is significant.

Thanks for your response. I have a lot of respect for people who won't compromise in working towards what they believe in.

I appreciate your lengthy responses. Its a side of things that don't often show up in mainstream media. I could draw comparisons to bands who struggle to survive that have to tour their asses off and work normal people jobs during their downtime, citing pirating and a changing music industry as the cause. In truth we are experiencing a period of great change and the sad part is that those guys in the middle may not experience relief for a while.